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August 7, 2018

Saints and Feasts of August 7


On the seventh your two initiates were covered Dometios.

(Fasting Day)

Holy Martyr Dometios of Persia and his Two Disciples

Synaxarion of the Holy Martyr Dometios of Persia and his Two Disciples

Saint Dometios of Persia as a Model for our Lives


Venerable Or

Saint Or, the Hermit of Thebaid

Life and Sayings of Holy Abba Or of Nitria


Venerable Myriad (10,000) Ascetics of the Thebaid

Venerable Myriad (10,000) Ascetics of the Thebaid


Venerable Potamia the Wonderworker

Venerable Potamia the Wonderworker


Holy Hieromartyr Narcissus, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Holy Hieromartyr Narcissus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (+ c. 216)

A Second Century Paschal Miracle in Jerusalem


Venerable Martyr Asterios the Senator

Holy Martyr Asterios the Senator


Venerable Hyperechios

Sayings of Holy Abba Hyperechios


Saint Sozon of Nicomedia

Saint Sozon of Nicomedia


Venerable Theodosios the New of Argos

Saint Theodosios the New and the Healer of Argos


Venerable Nikanor the Wonderworker
 
 
   
 
 
August: Day 7: Venerable Pimen the Much-Ailing


Venerable Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves

Saint Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves (+ 1141)


Saint Mercurius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Smolensk

Saint Mercurius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Smolensk (+ 1239)


Venerable Theodora of Sihla

Saint Theodora of Sihla
 
 

Venerable Dometios the Sign-Bearer of Philotheou

Saint Dometios the Sign-Bearer of Philotheou

 
Venerable Agathon, Founder of Agathonos Monastery
 
Venerable Anthony of Optina

Saint Anthony of Optina (+ 1865)


Venerable Joseph the Gerontogiannis

Saint Joseph the Gerontogiannis of Kapsa (+ 1874)
 
 
Commemoration of the Siege of Constantinople 
by the Avars and Persians 
 
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